AUTO

Hackett: “We don’t need the robot to get around.” Photo credit: BLOOMBERG SAN FRANCISCO — Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Hackett doesn’t foresee a robot takeover when it comes to the advent of autonomous vehicles. Hackett outlined his vision for future mobility at Ford’s City of Tomorrow event in San Francisco on Thursday. Rather than predict an all pod-car streetscape …

Ford will host its mainstay event, Mustang Alley, at the Woodward Dream Cruise. Photo credit: Will Harrah/Ford Motor Co. DERTOIT — Ford, Chevy and Dodge will turn to the Woodward Dream Cruise, a classic-car celebration in suburban Detroit, on Saturday to generate some marketing buzz on their offerings. Ford signed on in June on as the event’s one-year presenting sponsor, …

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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team owner Brad Keselowski announced late Thursday that his team, Brad Keselowski Racing, will end operations at the conclusion of the 2017 season. The team’s current drivers are Austin Cindric and Chase Briscoe. Briscoe is currently fourth in the points standings, and Cindric is 10th. Last …

Sixt owns 50 percent of BMW’s car-sharing service DriveNow. Photo credit: Bloomberg FRANKFURT — German carmakers Daimler and BMW may be in talks to combine their car-sharing services Car2Go and DriveNow, the chief executive of car rental company and DriveNow partner Sixt hinted on Thursday. Daimler and BMW have discussed pooling their car-sharing businesses to better compete against ride-hailing companies …

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Several years ago — more than 20 but fewer than 100 — some European magazine had the gall to say that, while the cars at Pebble Beach were lovely, they were all, essentially, trailer queens, none of them were ever driven down a highway under their own power and so what was the …

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Rolls-Royce officially introduced the eighth-generation Phantom after a small leak last month in a Chinese magazine. It looks…about the same. It might be a little more aggressive, imposing, Darth Vader-like, but no one will confuse it for anything but a Phantom. The general term Rolls throws around is “Architecture of Luxury,” which is …

Alain Cohen with one of his three Teslas. Tesla Inc. has responded to comments made in a Tuesday guest blog on the Automotive News website by Washington, D.C., businessman Alain Cohen. Cohen, a self-described Tesla fan, filed a lawsuit against Tesla in Fairfax County, Va., claiming that he encountered several problems with his Tesla. He wrote that Tesla was not …

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Tiny Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, might be the last place you’d expect find a team of young women determined to make their mark at the racetrack. But these engineering students know their stuff. Student Gracie Hackenberg grew up around auto mechanics, helping her grandfather, a NASA engineer, work on vintage …

A shorter hood and crisp overhangs in the wedge-shaped Concept Z4 put the driver closer to the center of the car than in previous BMW roadsters, BMW says. Photo credit: BMW BMW Group on Thursday unveiled a long-awaited concept car that indicates the design direction for the next-generation Z4 roadster. The Concept Z4, introduced during Monterey Car Week in Pebble …

Freeland: “Canada does not view trade surpluses or deficits as a primary measure of whether a trading relationship works.” WASHINGTON — The Canadians may be characteristically polite as they carry out negotiations to amend the North American Free Trade Agreement, but apparently they won’t be pushovers. In a briefing following the opening day of NAFTA talks Wednesday, Foreign Minister Chrystia …